Dinner Tonight Courtesy of Trader Joes:

I just had an amazing dinner. I couldn’t tell you the nutritional value of it or how many calories it was, nor do I care. The flavor content was mindgobbling (Thanks Christian).

So what did I have? Well it was a pretty simple fair. When I was at TJoes I picked up a 4 pack of Organic Artichokes and cooked one of those up. It was delicious, dipped in butter, as predicted and was the least flavorful part of the meal. Part of it was slightly undercooked which was both my fault for not checking the artichokes I bought, and my fault for not using quite enough water when I cooked it.

Next was Trader Joe’s brand Sweet Apple Chicken Sausages and these things pretty much made me mess my drawers. Next time you’re at Trader Joes and looking to pick up something snack-worthy I highly recommend it. They were a mindblowing addition to the meal and gave a nice sweet light taste to the heavier butter soaked artichoke.

Then of course was the piece de resistance (I don’t really know what that means). The Chimay Grand Reserve. I’ll say one thing them Belgians’ sure know how to brew a tasty damn beer. I’ve been growing more and more fond of Belgian beer lately with Blue Moon being good and Hoegaarden being a favorite. But Chimay is mindblowing, and alongside the other two pieces of the meal it was perfect, and it’s nice and thick so I can definitely count it as part of the meal. Next time you think about buying that 6 dollar bud light at a bar, go home and buy a tall delicious Chimay instead.

My god I’m in Gluttonous Heaven right now.

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Posted by admin - 28/02/08 - 0 comments

 

So I haven’t done acting in a long time, and I don’t know that that changed today, though I had a pretty cool experience.

Cory wanted me to come up to LA to work on a film he was doing. He said he had a part that he thought I’d be really good in and he wanted to know if I’d do it. So I agreed.

Fast forward a few days. The part that flexes my awesome comic genius is playing a security guard and saying “Yeah uh… you can’t go out there. They’re crazy and violent” The end.

But, I had promised Cory that I’d do it so I went out today despite being a little underwhelmed, and it turned out to be a lot of fun. The movie itself is a movie about/staring Henry Phillips who is a comedian I think is pretty funny, and I’m sure I’ve posted his stuff before (I think Dan got me into him) and I got to meet him and talk to him, and see him perform a show. So that alone would have been cool, then on top of it I got free food, did some “acting” and got to hang out with some awesome people (all the other actors were pretty interesting). So all in all a fun time was had by all and when the movie is released in whatever form it is I’ll totally look for it and get my IMDB fame going on as “Security Guard #1″. Epic.

This so got my brain churning. I am going to write more for Savor and work on the documentary project. I like hanging out around people doing good artistic work because it inspires me to do the same.

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Posted by admin - 24/02/08 - 0 comments

 

I really need to get a digital camera. Apologies in advance for trying to describe something that could oh so much more gracefully be captured with a picture.

I am sitting in my grandma’s jacuzzi, it’s overcast which is just the kind of weather I like. It’s sunny out, but everything is in the way of that sunlight actually shining through and getting to me, so instead everything looks backlit. As I sit back, relaxing from what seems like months worth of moving crap, finally unwinding I look up and see thunderheads racing across the sky, not moving at slow speeds but practically roiling across above me, and I heard ONE peel of thunder. I debated getting out but the warmth was too great so I just gave a long sigh and sank deeper into relaxation.

So far, so good

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Posted by admin - 19/02/08 - 0 comments

 

It’s kinda funny that it’s going to have taken this long to get to why I made the new journal. With moving to Palm Desert I have the opportunity for a lot of things, and one of those opportunities is to get several facets of my life back on track. While I largely don’t want to think of my move as geographic therapy, which I’ve certainly tried to have my fair share of, this is going to be different than driving cross country to Chicago or moving up north to stay with my Dad in Oregon.

While I may have friends and relatives visit down here, and I may go back to LA semi-often (it’s only a 2.5 hour drive), on a regular weekly basis I’ll be all by myself in a big house in Palm Desert, staring at the walls, so I want to take it upon myself to try to sort out some shit in my life.

As of today I am 100% totally and finally fully moved out of my Van Nuys apartment, and I have 8 dollars in my wallet, I got added to Chexsystems for an overdue balance of $300 to WaMu, I have a rediculously huge t-mobile, electric, and cable bill, and I’m sure a few incidentals I haven’t gotten around to sorting through yet. So one of the first thing I need to do out here is sort out my financials. Trying to go to SMC and get student aid turned out to be laughable at best. I was under this vague impression that with studen aide, since I was making $0 a week, and had no savings to speak of, I’d qualify for… something. Well I did qualify for something, I qualified for a $300 fee waiver for my tuition, which made sure I didn’t wind up that much more in the hole.

I have a chance to apply for Unemployment still, which would be great because the extra money coming in would be awesome to put a dent/take care of that debt, as well as paying for… I dunno… groceries, and I had an unexpected suprise when my landlord mentioned I might be getting some of my rediculously huge deposit back (I had to pay like 3 months upfront because of my shitty credit). I’m just going to funnel this all to my mom who paid my last months rent, and has given me several hundred dollars worth of gas money to get to and fro the desert, and basically covered my ass.

The one large upside of having moved here is I’ve already thrown away a bunch of crap I really dont need, and I plan to sell off/simplify what I own, and hopefully use some of those funds for getting my life a bit back on track. I’ve also decided while I’m down here I’m going to learn to play blues guitar, and try to read more, and I’ll be going back to school in Summer.

In a sidenote, I went to an endochrinologist (however you spell that) to make sure I don’t have lymphatic cancer or something (I dunno, my mom wanted me to go, I don’t really think I’m at risk). He said “You look fine, except you’re blood pressure is high, loose weight and it’ll go down”. Which is good news I suppose, not like loosing weight is a bad idea anyways, but since I’ve been moving constantly, I have eaten more fast food SINCE having that talk with the doctor than I have in the 4 months prior to going in there, and that amuses me.

Anyways more later, must start putting away the giant piles of crap I now litter my grandma’s place with. (BTW, you guys are totally welcome to come visit whenever, just lemme know)

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Posted by admin - 10/02/08 - 0 comments

 

It’s rare that I see a movie I don’t like. And I don’t know if I liked Casshern or not. Hell I don’t know much about the movie at all. To be fair I started it with a solid buzz going after the Superbowl, then the Simpson’s movie, so by the time I got to it I was maybe not in the right move for an epic, preachy drama/action movie with awesome CGI and zombie robot ninjas.

I mean. It’s a movie that has a special CGI effect that I found myself going “Science!” loudly and proudly whenever it happened. They had a CGI effect for science.

I think I get what they were trying to say, and it really did look cool. Maybe this’d be a good stoner movie? Someone give it a try while baked out of their gourd and let me know.

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Posted by admin - 05/02/08 - 0 comments

 

I know I haven’t really gotten to why I switched blogs yet. That’ll come soon, I promise.

In the interim I have to talk about today’s news. I went to CNN.com and here are the top news stories. These are put in my idea of least bad, to worst.

Movie “Over my dead body” sucks (paraphrased)
Readers Weigh in on Microsoft’s Yahoo Bid.
Police corner escaped prisoner
Clinton, Obama Changes tones at debate.
Coulter wants Clinton over Mccain
Why clooney won’t stump for fave obama
Van Der Sloot throws wine in writer’s face
387 Pound man walks off half his weight
Big chark chomps bitty shark at aquarium (with video)
Bush “Troubling signs” for economy
Six dead in Carolina plane crash
3rd Undersea Internet Cable cut in Mideast
Killing of model-bodyguard stuns moskow
Chinese travelers stampede train stations
Hollywood Muscle quashes Ledger Video
Kindergartner chokes to death while on bus
Mom said baby “Fit right into the microwave”

and the headline

“Mentally Disabled women blown up”

In a Baghdad market, 2 mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives and then detonated by remote control, killing 98 people and wounding 200 more.

While that sounds like a plotline from 24 gone horribly wrong, when I look at all those news articles I go “Oh right. This is why I don’t read the news” there’s nothing positive on there. I guess the 387 pound man loosing half his weight but… fuck me 387 pounds? Even my fatass never weighed that much. And the cops catch some guy who had escaped from prison. I guess that’s good news but that’s as good as it gets?

Thats fucking horribly depressing.

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Posted by admin - 01/02/08 - 0 comments